tub
IPA: tˈʌb
noun
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- A bathtub.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- A small cask.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- (obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
verb
- (transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
- (transitive, intransitive) To bathe in a tub.
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Examples of "tub" in Sentences
- He had a bath in the tub.
- The boy had a bath in the tub.
- You watch it whiz around the tub.
- They drenched themselves in the tub.
- He does the cutest thing in the tub.
- The juice is stored in tubs to ferment.
- The large sunken tub was in the master bedroom.
- She upbraids him for showering his dog in the bath tub.
- A deep soaking tub is the centerpiece of the Purist Suite.
- An impermeable flexible sleeve is sealed to the edge of the tub.
- This tub is not for all of you clumsy and broke people out there.
- Getting the dead cab-driver hooker into the tub is a real chore, though.
- For example, the tub is the largest object in our bathroom, but it is tucked into an alcove.
- The point of this tub is to put it in a large, open space and to actually * see* the water overflowing.
- III. ii.59 (82,4) [in the tub] The method of cure for veneral complaints is grosly celled the _powdering tub_.
- Over the tub is a big, deep shelf for the window, which sticks out from the rest of the house like a huge wood and glass wart.
- The exterior of the tub is painted in beautiful patterns or even unusual portraits which contribute to an original and personalized bathroom interior.
- But everything of that kind was brought abruptly to an end by a loud discordant blowing of horns and the hollow _tub, tub, tub_ of a number of rude drums; at which sounds the crowd around us broke up at once and retired, our little Hebe casting back at us more than one glance strongly indicative, as it seemed to me, of compassion.
- Perfectly delighted at the idea of standing face to face with a person of whom she had heard so much, Dora removed her high-necked apron, and throwing it across the tub so that the sleeves trailed upon the floor, was hurrying away, when her foot becoming accidentally entangled in the apron, she fell headlong to the floor, bringing with her _tub_, _suds_, _clothes_ and all!